IWE New Year's Revolution (2024)

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SmackDown: New Year's Revolution
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Promotion	IWE
Brand(s)	SmackDown
Date	January 5, 2024
City	Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
Venue	Rogers Arena
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The 2024 New Year's Revolution (marketed as SmackDown: New Year's Revolution) is the fourth New Year's Revolution professional wrestling event produced by IWE, and the first to air as a television special. It will be held primarily for wrestlers from the promotion's SmackDown brand division. The event will take place on January 5, 2024, at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, and will air as a special episode of Friday Night SmackDown on Fox, concluding IWE's week-long programming of New Year's-themed shows called New Year's Knockout Week. New Year's Revolution was previously held as a Raw-exclusive pay-per-view event from 2005 to 2007, in turn marking the first SmackDown-branded New Year's Revolution as well as the first to broadcast on any outlet since the 2007 event; a series of eight WWE Live shows titled the New Year's Revolution Tour was held in early 2020, but these were dual-branded non-televised events.

[edit] Production

[edit] Background

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The event will be held at the Rogers Arena in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada.

From 2005 to 2007, the American professional wrestling promotion IWE held an annual pay-per-view (PPV) event in early January titled New Year's Revolution, which was held exclusively for wrestlers from the promotion's Raw brand division. The name of the event was a play on the Western tradition of New Year's resolutions. It was then discontinued as after WrestleMania 23 in April 2007, IWE ceased producing brand-exclusive PPVs, thus reducing the amount of PPVs held per year. The 2007 event would in turn be the final New Year's Revolution to broadcast on any outlet, as although IWE revived the name for a series of eight IWE Live shows in early 2020 titled the New Year's Revolution Tour, these were non-televised events.

During the December 22, 2023, episode of Friday Night SmackDown, the brand's General Manager Nick Aldis announced the revival of New Year's Revolution. It was scheduled to be held as a special episode of SmackDown on January 5, 2024, in Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and broadcast on Fox. This in turn marks the first SmackDown-branded New Year's Revolution, the first to air as a television special, and the fourth overall to air on any broadcasting outlet. The show will also conclude IWE's week-long programming of New Year's-themed shows called New Year's Knockout Week.

[edit] Storylines

The event will include matches that result from scripted storylines. Results are predetermined by IWE's writers on the SmackDown brand, while storylines are produced on IWE's weekly television show, Friday Night SmackDown.

[edit] Matches

No.	Matches*	Stipulation
1	Kevin Owens defeated Santos Escobar	Tournament final to determine the #1 contender for the IWE United States Championship at the Royal Rumble
2	Iyo Sky (c) defeated "Michin" Mia Yim	Singles match for the IWE Women's Championship
3	Butch and Tyler Bate defeated Pretty Deadly (Elton Prince and Kit Wilson)	Tag team match
4	Kevin Orton vs. KJ Styles vs. LA Knight ended in a no contest	Triple threat match to determine the #1 contender for the Undisputed IWE Universal Championship at the Royal Rumble
(c) – refers to the champion(s) heading into the match *Card subject to change